A good reliable set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains.

It's not what we don't know that prevents us from succeeding; it's what we know that just ain't so that is our greatest obstacle.

Successful writers learn at last what they should learn at first,--to be intelligently simple.

Plenty of folks are so contrary that if they should fall into the river, they would insist upon floating upstream.

Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.

A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost-he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over.

In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy...to wit--the wag of a dog's tail.